The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-?ve
years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every country the Mongols
conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication,
expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization. Vastly more progressive than
his European or Asian counterparts, Genghis Khan abolished torture, granted
universal religious freedom, and smashed feudal systems of aristocratic
privilege. From the story of his rise through the tribal culture to the
explosion of civilization that the Mongol Empire unleashed, this brilliant work
of revisionist history is nothing less than the epic story of how the modern
world was made.